Ram Trucks Australia triples production ahead of Ford and Toyota arrivals

The record gross sales expansion of US pick-ups in Australia is about to acquire rate – and perhaps provide buyers the competitiveness required to carry some downward cost force.

Industry leader Ram Vehicles Australia is planning to triple its regional creation output of the Ram 1500 variety – such as the supercharged V8 Ram TRX (pictured over) – after using more than the former factory place utilised by Standard Motors for the Chevrolet Silverado.

Until eventually previous month, both of those the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and Ram 1500 ended up remanufactured from left- to proper-hand-drive below the exact roof by the Walkinshaw Automotive Group, the former father or mother organization of Holden Specific Autos.

Nevertheless, the Chevrolet Silverado assembly line has moved to a different, smaller website while Ram Vans Australia has taken around the entire facility, growing its factory floorspace from 6000 sq. metres to 16,000 sq. metres.

The extra house will deliver a significant enhance in generation potential, much more than tripling Ram’s unique output.

Ram Trucks Australia remanufactured more than 800 cars very last month – a new history – and proceeds to outsell its nearest rival, the Chevrolet Silverado, by far more than two-to-one.

Official gross sales information displays Ram Vehicles Australia has claimed much more than 3500 automobiles as offered so considerably this 12 months – up 20 for each cent compared to the identical period of time last yr, in a marketplace that has dipped by 2.1 per cent.

Profits of the Chevrolet Silverado are considerably less than fifty percent the Ram tally. Chevrolet’s functioning whole of additional than 1400 Silverado select-ups documented as bought in Australia so considerably this 12 months signifies an increase of 10 per cent.

Waiting around situations for most forms of US pick-ups in Australia are blown out by four to 6 months on common, as clients upgrade from Toyota HiLux utes, Toyota LandCruisers, and Nissan Patrols for towing duties.

However, Ram Vehicles Australia is operating overtime to deliver motor vehicles quicker.

Now that official distributor Ram Trucks Australia has tackled production ability – with far more than 500 locally-engineered components heading into each and every manufacturing facility-backed remanufactured vehicle – the firm expects ready occasions will appear down.

Push understands Ram Vans Australia is hoping assert as considerably territory as feasible prior to the Ford F-150 comes in Ford showrooms from mid-2023 and right before the Toyota Tundra Hybrid turns up some time in 2024 – if the job gets the green mild from Japan.